uppercase English

Meaning uppercase meaning

What does uppercase mean?

uppercase

— adjective relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc

— noun (= capital, upper-case letter) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters

Synonyms uppercase synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as uppercase?

uppercase English » English

capital

majuscule

capital letter

upper-case letter

upper case

stout

muckle

mickle

large

hulking

great

capitalized

capital city

bulky

block letter

block capital

big